[Novalug] pirut : am I missing something obvious?

Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com
Sun May 18 17:10:39 EDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:26 -0700, Beartooth wrote:
> 	There's a thread (begun April 27) on Gmane's 
> fedora.general list, which has gotten surprisingly little 
> attention. It claims pirut is to be obsoleted. Is this true?? Is 
> there some other front end for yum that has the same abilities to 
> find apps, by type and by list, without knowing their exact names 
> -- and then install or remove them??

Sorry for being very late on this thread -- it's been a busy week!  In
Fedora 9, PackageKit (http://packagekit.org/) has taken over the
graphical software management duties.  It still has a few rough edges
but operations like this work fine, as well as the standard system
updating.

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